One more lesson on bright colors having demand far greater than classic beige and black, prices do not matter.
HF, Carbon, SD and the likes do way better than any beige or black.
I think there are also a lot of users who use their MX board for decoration, as they cannot stray away from the HHKB as the main board, but want to throw money still.
The use of keyboards as purely ornamental things may explain the interest for LEDs, colorful key sets, artisans and expensive metal cases. Maybe the bread of keyboard aficionados that want their keyboards as utility items has come to an end. Am I the last one?
Keyboards still retain their utility even if they are colorful. There's nothing I hate more than bland uniformity for its own sake. If you like black, greys, beiges and the like, that's fine, but to insinuate that keyboards should be that way and users who do not prefer those color palettes are any lesser is a rather unfair judgement. What if I said that customizing a keyboard is just a reflection of people's personalities? I could then conclude that people who like black, greys, and beiges to be rather boring people. I'm sure a lot of people would object to that.
Do not overreact, nobody wrote about personalities or lack of judgements, at the contrary, it was stated that this boring bread is dying.
In no way is it dying. Many people still prefer the classic beige and black colors and that's evident with people finding and restoring old IBMs or other boards. The classic colors will always have a stake in the enthusiast community but people also want more.
Choice, but more specifically color is the spice of life and that's very evident with simple things in life such as your pair of pants that you wear. We can take the pair of jeans as a point of departure which was made in the 1870s. There was only one pair back then, and just because that was how it was made, does not mean that's how it should have been. Today, you can walk into any store and find over 20 pairs of jeans in over 5 different styles, and it's all up to the individual to dictate how they choose to look. Hopefully one day we can do the same with all commodities in life, but this is the main trend in modern day consumerism where people can dictate the smallest intricacy from what color their stabilizer is, or what color plate, or pcb they have, when these things truly have no effect on the functionality of the keyboard.